For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

The discrepancy is known as the Hubble tension, and new JWST data hasn’t done anything to ease it (SN: 7/30/19). The telescope took images of the same stars as the Hubble telescope and ...

This unexplained difference is what we call the Hubble tension. "I like thinking of the Hubble tension as like when you were a kid at the doctor's office, and you got measured when you were a baby ...

More information: Daniel Scolnic et al, The Hubble Tension in Our Own Backyard: DESI and the Nearness of the Coma Cluster, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ada0bd ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, ...